Name: JOHN SLOAN (1871-1951)
Brand: Reading in the Subway
Price: 1900.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

JOHN SLOAN (1871-1951)
Reading in the Subway
etching, on laid paper, 1926, Morse's third (final) state, signed and titled in pencil, inscribed "Her feet beneath her petticoat / Like little mice peeped in and out / As if they feared the light" / (Sir John Suckling 1620)', from the intended edition of 100 (Morse notes that 85 were printed), with margins, framed
Image: 5 x 4 in. (128 x 101 mm.)
Sheet: 10³⁄₄ x 7¹⁄₂ in. (273 x 191 mm.)

Morse 223

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Lot Essay

The quote inscribed below is from the poem A Ballad upon a Wedding by the 17th-century English poet Sir John Suckling. Sloan stated "I had these lines in mind when I saw the scene. I've always written them on every proof. Crowninsheild reproduced it in Vanity Fair [26, Aug. 1926, 51], enlarged, which isn't good for an etching. Then he kept after me for a follow-up in the same vein."